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Films Are Fantasies. Here Are Their Realities.
Later, I learned that the man was Atsushi Nishijima, known as Jima—an on-set stills photographer who in the past decade and a half has…
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The Oscars: Who Will Win and Who Should Win
Will win: “One Battle After Another” Should win: “One Battle After Another” Should’ve been nominated: “Sirāt” Best Director Paul Thomas…
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Has Taking the Perfect Photo Ruined Tourism in “The Spectacle”?
Yasmin van Dorp’s short film depicts beautiful destinations—and the crowds of cell-phone photographers who inundate them. Source link
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Does “Wuthering Heights” Herald the Revival of the Film Romance?
“Wuthering Heights” extrapolates, too, of course. The many truncations and excisions have been detailed copiously, including by my…
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“Crime 101” Is an Enjoyably Moody Exercise in Michael Mann Lite
Those qualities bind him, in a spiritual sense, to Lou, who can’t suppress a quiet admiration for the criminal he’s pursuing, and also to…
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Reporting From Sundance: The Buzzy Talent and Films to Have on Your Radar This Year
Alexa, play "Last Dance" by Donna Summer. For over four decades, Park City has been home to the Sundance Film Festival, where Hollywood…
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The 2026 Oscar Nominations and What Should Have Been Picked
Wes Anderson (“The Phoenician Scheme”) Ryan Coogler (“Sinners”) Kleber Mendonça Filho (“The Secret Agent”) Josh Safdie (“Marty Supreme”)…
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Amanda Seyfried’s Epiphanies
The star of “The Testament of Ann Lee” and “The Housemaid” discusses letting go of judgment, working without hierarchies, and committing…
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13 Stylish Films to Watch Before ‘Wuthering Heights,’ According to Emerald Fennell
Wuthering Heights has the world on tenterhooks. Emerald Fennell’s reimagining of Emily Brontë’s windswept classic is set to push the…
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In Two Films About Palestinian Struggle, Time Is of the Essence
Dabis’s diagrammatically structured screenplay is built on clear historical parallels and tidy intergenerational contrasts. A young boy…
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“Father Mother Sister Brother” Explores the Mysteries of Family Life
This is what happens when “The Dead Don’t Die” dies. That scintillating Jim Jarmusch movie, from 2019, a mashup of comedy, science…
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The Organists Improvising Soundtracks to Silent Films
A hundred and three years on, F. W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” still haunts the moviegoing unconscious. Newcomers feel…
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7 of Rob Reiner’s Greatest Films
Reiner’s feature directorial debut, This is Spinal Tap, is a mockumentary comedy film that follows Spinal Tap, a once-great English heavy…
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“Wake Up Dead Man”: A Murder Mystery with God in the Details
They’re a pretty wretched lot. There’s a local doctor, Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner), who has slipped into alcoholic despair since his wife…
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What the Warner Bros. Sale Means for the Art of Movies
The business outlook remained bleak, of course. Throughout the nineteen-sixties, amid vast social and generational changes, the studios,…
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Two New Movies Revivify the Portrait-Film Genre
Documentaries about individuals are ubiquitous, but “Suburban Fury” and “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” explore the…
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The Best Films of 2025
This year’s best movies feel plugged in, inextricably connected to forces bigger than the ordinary faces of local and private…
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Building a State of Fear in “Extremist”
On November 16, 2023, Sasha Skochilenko, a thirty-three-year-old artist, poet, and musician, stood in court to give what is known in the…
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The Wicked: For Good Costume Designer Reveals How He Created the Magical Looks Worn by the Film's Stars
Welcome to TheWho What Wear Podcast. Think of it as your direct line to the designers, stylists, beauty experts, editors, and tastemakers…
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“Train Dreams” Is Too Tidy to Go Off the Rails
In Clint Bentley’s adaptation of a Denis Johnson novella, Joel Edgerton plays a builder of bridges who finds himself increasingly cut off…
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Diane Keaton’s Shadows and Light
In Vanity Fair in 1987, Keaton told Joan Juliet Buck, “I was always pretty religious as a kid, but I had trouble with Jesus early on…
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Tim Curry Does the Time Warp
It does feel kind of like a play. Even people who haven’t seen it know Madeline Kahn’s “flames on the side of my face” speech. What was…